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A sort of verbal tennis devised by Norman Hackforth
The players:
SHEILA HANCOCK
OLGA FRANKLIN
PAUL JENNINGS
NORMAN HACKFORTH and a special challenge this week from
HUMPHREY LYTTELTON and ANTONY HOPKINS
In the umpire's chair, MAX ROBERTSON
Produced by David O'Clee
Pre-recorded at The Paris, Lower Regent Street, London. S.W.1

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Hackforth
Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Olga Franklin
Unknown:
Paul Jennings
Unknown:
Norman Hackforth
Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Unknown:
Antony Hopkins
Unknown:
Max Robertson
Produced By:
David O'Clee

A panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge
ANNE SCOTT-JAMES and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair, JACK LONGLAND
Last Wednesday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Jack Longland

A radio serial in thirteen parts by LANCE SIEVEKING based on the novel by FRANCESCA MARTON with Patricia Leventon
John Vaughan , an old admirer of Jane, has called at the Whetstones' house to renew his attentions.
Part 3
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Lance Sieveking
Novel By:
Francesca Marton
Unknown:
Patricia Leventon
Unknown:
John Vaughan
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey

A family magazine introduced by POLLY ELWES and including:
Down Under: BETTY BEST on a recent visit to Australia talked to some of the people who had emigrated from the British Isles
Prussians for Breakfast: WIL
LIAM COLLINS recalls a holiday en famille in pre-war Nazi Germany
What Life Has Taught Me:
VIOLET CARSON talks to Raymond Short
Drop us a line: your news. views, and memories

Contributors

Introduced By:
Polly Elwes
Unknown:
Liam Collins
Talks:
Violet Carson

Tales from Jane Austen
Ten stories selected and abridged by H. OLDFIELD BOX
3: How Aunt Norris ' adopted ' Fanny Price from Mansfield Park
Read by MARJORIE WESTBURY

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Austen
Abridged By:
H. Oldfield
Read By:
Marjorie Westbury

by John Galsworthy adapted for broadcasting in forty-eight parts by MURIEL LEVY with Rachel Curney
Alan Wheatley , Noel Johnson
Patricia Galtimore
Michael Spice
Kenneth Fortescue
27: Beyond Caprice
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
John Galsworthy
Unknown:
Muriel Levy
Unknown:
Rachel Curney
Unknown:
Alan Wheatley
Unknown:
Noel Johnson
Unknown:
Patricia Galtimore
Unknown:
Michael Spice
Unknown:
Kenneth Fortescue
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Soames:
Alan Wheatley
Fleur:
Patricia Gallimore
Jon:
Kenneth Fortescue
Irene:
Rachel Gurney
Jolyon:
Noel Johnson
Michael Mont:
Michael Spice
Prosper Profond:
David March
Annette:
Céclle Chevreau

CHARLES OSBORNE introduces scenes from Puccini's opera set in Paris and on the Riviera during the Second Empire with ANNA MOFFO as Magda de Civry
DANIELE BARION as Ruggero Lastouc
MARIO SERENI as Rambaldo Fernandez
GRAZIELLA SCIUTTI as Lisette
PIERO DE PALMA as Prunier gramophone records

Contributors

Introduces:
Charles Osborne
Unknown:
Anna Moffo
Unknown:
Magda de Civry
Unknown:
Daniele Barion
Unknown:
Ruggero Lastouc
Unknown:
Mario Sereni
Unknown:
Rambaldo Fernandez
Unknown:
Graziella Sciutti

A younger edition
Introduced by RONALD EYRE
A group of children have been out to a bookshop to make their personal choice of reading. In tonight's programme they talk to Ronald Eyre about the sort of books they chose and their opinions of them
Produced by Russell Harty

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ronald Eyre
Unknown:
Ronald Eyre
Produced By:
Russell Harty

A series of four-round contests
London v. Northern Ireland
Round 3
London
CEDRIC CLIFFE, BARRY CARMAN
Quiz-Master, LIONEL HALE
Northern Ireland
C. E. B. BRETT , RONALD GREEN
Quiz-Master, Roy PLOMLEY
Arranged by Patrick Harvey

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Carman
Unknown:
E. B. Brett
Arranged By:
Patrick Harvey

on SPARE-PART SURGERY
The recent heart transplants have opened a new era in medicine underlining the controversial problems of organ transplantation which concern the whole community. When is human life no longer worth saving? How should death be defined? Can we afford spare-part surgery?
Focus puts these and other questions to patients, doctors, and other experts Introduced by EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
Produced by George Fischer

Contributors

Introduced By:
Edgar Lustgarten
Produced By:
George Fischer

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